And the private ones aren't really prestigious like the public funded IITs. > Works well, doesn't really devalue the prestige of the uni or the students who ge

And the private ones aren't really prestigious like the public funded IITs. > Works well, doesn't really devalue the prestige of the uni or the students who get in by paying like some of the sibling comments are speculating. Not sure which part of India you lived in but private engineering schools like Manipal, SRM, Vellore aren't considered prestigious. BITS is the only private one which has good clout but they don't have any management quotas.